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by kheta chilpe does â€” â€” ~ â– â– â€” Â» â€” â€” â€” â€” Â» a examiner leads in circulation the daily and sunday examiner in november sold more papers in the city of Chicago than any other two morning papers with several thousand to spare i circulation books open to the inspection of any advertiser Chicago examiner Chicago and vicinity partiy e'^^jj^t^nl % cloudy friday becoming unsettled y v^w^)ffe 9 saturday with possibly rain not jj xq^t&jrc i much change in temperature /Â£&&/ range ol temperatures yesterday fe^^cllÃŸlstw holiest 07 <-* 8 77 shopping i lowest 41 / yjqy 1 average 4u rl jfi * vol xl no 299 a m friday Chicago december 5 1913 friday registered in 0 s pa:cnt oftlm pricf onf cfnt ommmnt by carrier rruv^c jml v^lin i ,â€ž cents per montl fisher given lie in depot argument by ald geiger chairman of terminals commit tee challenges word of trac tion attorney and declares he is playing to gallery charges representative of cer tain interests is delaying work on ordinances immedi ate action is demanded charges tbat the ordinances for the lvunsylvania railroad's 50,000,000 sta tion are being delayed by obstructionists precipitated a quarrel iu which the lie was passed at the meeting of the draft ing subcommittee of the city council yesterday afternoon the quarrel was between attorney wal ler l fisher and alderman ellis geiger chairman of the city council's terminal committee chairman geiger intimated that the preparation of the ordinances was being unduly retarded by the dilatory and ob structive tactics of fisher i think we should act ou the sugges tion of the city's engineer mr wallace and meet the terminals committee to morrow to report the rather slight prog ress we have made and fiud out how much more time the committee can give us for his work said geiger calls it railroading that is simply a proposition to rail road the matter back into the hands of another subcommittee said fisher who is acting as legal adviser to bion j ar nold engineer for a ' citizens committee of city club members you're making a speech to ibe^aller Â„ â– iir.il .-â€¢>â– tijnrp n trr^rfr^jl ing his fist at fisher it would be railroading the matter fisher repeated that's a lie shouted geiger fisher attempted to make an explana tion to the effect that he meant no re flection on the alderman but the latter cut him shbrt with au outburst in which he accused the attorney of delaying the work on the ordinances let me tell you some home truths exclaimed chairman geiger trembling with auger for the last six months i have worked hard on this matter and my colleagues on the committee have also worked hard now you come here at the eleventh hour as attorney for certain interests and make the false charge that these ordinances are being railroaded action is demanded you know that the council must act if it is to act at all i know the major ity of the council want action and that is why i want to know whether you are going to continue sparring for further delay i want to send the whole mat ter to the subcommittee to-morrow after noon or evening well i won't retract what i have said declared fisher to make a report tq the subcommittee before we are half ready is nothing but railroad ing the affair out of our hands then it means a battle royal between us if you take that position asserted alderman geiger engineer arnold chimed in with mr fisher give us a little more time before calling the aldermen together he said continued on 2d page let column grand opera hotel thieves get 3,500 two women dupe jeweler pick lock of door grand opera thieves men who each year make an inventory of jewels worn by women ou the opening night of the grand opera season entered the room of mrs g a stepehens wife of the president of the moline plow company in the congress hotel and secured jewels valued at 3,500 the robbery which was reported to the police last night occurred some time be tween the opening of the grand opera season and november 25 mrs stepehens wore the jewels on the opening night when she opened her jewel case on thc night of november 25 she discovered her 1 loss needle fiend drugs bride in theater box south american arrested charged with white slavers trick newark n j dec 4 armand me garo a south american who has been studying pharmacy in this country was arrested iu a box iu the lyric theater here to-day charged with injecting n powerful opiate into the arm of mrs marjorie h grass who a week ago be came the bride of william grass a civil engineer for months complaints have been made to the police that white slavers have taken this means of overcoming young women two youths rob four women in hyde park purses and vanity boxes stolen from owners within an hour two eighteen-year-old highwaymen in vaded hyde park last night and robbed â– four women within an hour , mrs l prager 5233 dorchester ave nue was robbed of her purse and 75 cents fifteen minutes later mrs j h hopkins 5701 blackstone avenue was robbed of ber purse with 13.50 and gol-t rimmed glasses ' mrs charles s painter 5006 dorches ter avenue was robbed of a 50 vanity case and 12.50 and miss mildred roth 55(1 east fifty-first street was robbed of i.li zilâ€”â€”^waii use ami 10 cents hetch-hetchy vote in senate to-morrow democrats lining up solidly for san francisco washington dec 4 with a rebuff , to theodore a bell the opposition lobby ist a remarkable change of position by congressman denver s church of cali fornia and an afternoon of oratory for and against the hetch-hetchy bill san francisco's water supply project moved along to-day toward the vote which will come saturday the democratic leaders in the senate held a conference and it is now prac tically certain that every democratic , vote will be lined up solidly for san - francisco warns n.w.u co-eds against the tango 'â– president harris says dance is im 1 moral and degenerating the tango hesitation and other new dances are immoral dangerous and lead to degeneracy they should be shunned , by university girls this statement was made yesterday by abram w harris president of north western university at a meeting of the , committee on the social life the committee decided that dances be supervised by students and chaperons to â€¢ eliminate objectionable features new arrest in hyman robbery planned to-day reeves attorney says real thief was represented in court by lawyer trial is delayed new warrant issued for man now held in case charges re ceiving stolen goods the arrest and arraignment of mel ville a reeves and his girl wife in con nection with 1 the theft of jewels from the safe of t j hyman secretary and treasurer of the Illinois steel company have failed to bring to light the real solution of the robbery reeves and his wife appeared yester day morning before municipal judge mahoney their attorney charles e erbsteiu obtained a continuance until december 12 but scarcely had the young couple left the courtroom when another warrant was issued this warrant charges reeves with receiving stolen property like the first two which charge reeves with the theft of nearly 5,00x1 of jewels and bis wife with receiving stolen prop erty this warrant was sworn by w h bigelow chief of the secret service of the Illinois steel company hunt third person this warrant has not yet been served to say the least it indicates a belief on ihe part of the Illinois steel company officials that there is a third party one who actually committed the theft and passed the jewels to reeves together with other contents of the safe reeves again declared yesterday that he is absolutely innocent notwithstand ing the combinajion to mr hyman s safe was found in his safe deposit box with a revolver that has been identified by mr hyman as having been taken from his safe he reiterated his statement of the previous night how do the police know tbat i wis ue im i mjc^a:'a that ftattg how do they know how many others could get into it then he added i'm the goat and refused to say another word reeves is innocent but he has been a chump said attorney erbstein i have most definite ideas regarding the identity of the real culprit and have re tained four detectives to run down every clew in connection with him i am not yet ready to name him but i will say this much â€” he was repre sented by counsel in court this morning when mr and mrs reeves were ar raigned this has been a mighty important arrest said lieutenant james larkin acting chief of the detective bureau whatever sensation has already been created will look cheap before we are done with the case detective sergeants gus loula and william morgan who have handled the case were nearly exhausted yesterday having slept but a few hours in the past three days and nights it is known that an arrest is contem plated to-day which will create a tre mendous sensation close to the office though the police wiu not admit it it is known that whoever committed the robbery was directed to the office the desk and the safe by some one either on the pay roll of the Illinois steel coin pony or in some manner in close touch with the affairs of the office detectives loula and morgan spent the greater part of yesterday running down various clews in company with mem bers of the Illinois steel company's se cret service last night they spent two hours iu con ference with officials of that company in the office iu the continental & com mercial bank buildiug where the rob bery was committed some of the very mysterious features of the case are these except on extraordinary occasions the Illinois steel company and kin dred large corporations have a mini mum of actual cosh in the office be cause they do business almost entirely by means of checks and drafts the responsibility of handling the enormous amount of money represent ed by the pay rolls and expenses of the concern falls upon the bank or banks used as depositories reeves is nobody's fool instead he is one of the shrewdest and most self possessed prisoners ever brought into the detective bureau if he com mitted the robbery he knew in ad vance that the vault of a corporation like the Illinois steel company was no place to look for much cash under ordinary circumstances game warden fines carnegie relative columbia s c dec 4 state game warden richardson went to camden to day to prosecute two young society ineii from the north arrested for violation ol the state game laws one is believed te â– f andrew carnegie th name of sayre warder led the cases out ot couw 50 and costs _ opium making men apes says scientist speaker declares prisons and asy lums are filled by morphine philadelphia pa dec 4 lf morphine using is not checked the na tion will degenerate to something worse than moukeydom declared dr b c keister a specialist of hoanoke before a meeting of scientists and specialists here according to dr keister the united states is now next to china in the use of opium and its derivatives twenty per cent of the medical pro fession the speaker continued are now victims of the morphine habit dr keister said the medical and crim inal records of the country indicated that a complete abolition of the manufacture of habit-forming drugs including alcohol would mean 50 per cent less homicides 00 per cent less suicides and 33 per cent less lunacy he said the loss to med icine whatever it might be froni the prohibition of morphine alcohol opium and cocaine would be worth while in view of the possible benefits dr keister said 400,000 pounds of opium are consumed in the united states annually he urged national legislation to prohibit the manufacture and importa tion of drugs and alcoholic beverages new york political treasurer indicted a a mclean charged with ac cepting checks xew york dec 4 arthur a mc lean treasurer of the democratic state committee was indicted to-day on two counts by the special grand juj-j the first count charged that mclean in his capacity as treasurer had accepted a check for 400 made out by harold v owens as secretary and treasurer of the dale engineering company of utica the second count alleged that he had - accepted a 1,000 draft from t f shaughnessy as president of the shaugh nessy construction company of albany only 10 per cent of freshmen perfect u of c instructor tells result of examination fewer than 10 per cent of the 392 ! men in the freshman class of the uni ity of cjritajjfp leunjp cauwl pujzal physical instructor yesterday and the scale of perfection declines in the mass until the senior class usually presents the lowest average ninety of the 392 use tobaccot si wear glasses 15 have organic disease 3 are color blind and an unnamed number have flat feet and other defects ribot asked to pick new french cabinet will not give his answer to poin care until to-day speoial cable to the examiner paris dec 4 president poincare af ter conferences with m caillaux and [ emile aimond requested ex-premier . felix bibot to-day to select a cabinet suitable to all groups of republicans m ribot declined pleading ill health but finally consented to give his answer . to-morrow if he declines doumergue ex-minister of commerce will be asked to form a ministry connie mack won't pay 3 for five philadelphia pa dec 4 connie mack world champions manager didn't wish for any 5 gold pieces at 3 apiece so he sent two gentlemen who of fered for sale 6,500 coins to ben shibe president of the ball club shibe was willing to look at the wares but refused to show 20,000 in honest money for the privilege the men are held in 800 each on charge of false pretense and carrying concealed weapons they are booked as george matthews and fred frodoon bailey is retained to aid stephenson milwaukee wis dec 4 former united states senator bailey of texas will be oue of united states senator stephenson's counsel iu the defense of the sackett suit for 50,000 for services in electing stephenson says william b black member of the milwaukee law firm which will assist in the case bailey will watch the washington end of the case may yohe will wed keeps name secret k new york dee 4 elated over hei 1 london success may yohe the musical artiste arrived to-day ou the liner new york her companion was the rareness i vou stuenkie i am romhvu hrre < f spend the cliristmas holidays witli 3 mother miss yohe said then i shal : return to london and marry hut il t you say i am going to re-marry lor hope i will spank you britons again imprison mrs pankhurst gale balks her rescue by suffragettes mrs dorr tells of cat seizing mouse mrs em'eline pankhurst bheta childe dorr i tell my friends in amer ica that the english gov ernment has begun a new form of torturing women â€” by secret imprisonment â€” mrs pankhurst militarism cause of german crisis von hollweg ready to quit as result of censure in the ' reichstag the chancellor who was not in serious mood in the reichstag yesterday spoke passionately and angrily to-day in de fending himself he admitted that th country is passing through a grave crisis as a result of the clash between the mili tary and civil elements he denied the existence of a secret in ner government in alsace which overruled the decisions of the recognized authorities as had bcen reported and said he would â€¢ ! resign instantly if such n thiug were true the present moment is a serious ' one the chancellor said not because 1 of the possibility of my resignation but because of the danger that the zabern incident and the debates iu the imperial ; [ parliament may lead to . a permanent ! breach betweeu the army and the people the imperial chancellor and the em ! peror are iu thorough accord in the belief ; i that a policy must be adopted which will heal this strife hundreds snowbound in streets of denver r ! denver dec 4 the greatest snow ! torm in the history of colorado is sweep 1 ing over the state to-night in denver at 5 10 o'clock sixteen inches of snow covered ** llie streets in many places iu the state i . lie snow was three feet deep 1 shoppers and shop girls here were nn t able to reach their l:<>nies i'ulilic build ings were thrown ieu to accommodate them policemen carried many women to lacrÂ«Â«Â£safe m writer describes arrest of leader on shipboard thirst strike is expected uheta child e dorr who sends the following cablegram to the Chicago examiner is the noted american suffragette who accompanied mrs pankhurst on her american tour and made the voyage to england with her ' â€¢ london dec 4 after a rough but otherwise pleasant and un eventful voyage the white star liner majestic with mrs pank hurst on board reached plymouth to-day as the steamer drop ped anchor outside the breakwater we were surprised to observe that the tender always heretofore on hand to land passengers was lying motionless in the distance between two drab war vessels the only craft in the harbor that showed any interest in the arrival of the majestic was a fisherman's motor dory which driven by the gale swept past the ship standing up in the boat clinging to each other for support were two women with little purple green and white badges pinned to their stormcoats auxiously the women scanned the faces of the passengers leaning over the deck rails the object of their search mrs pankhurst hailed them and " thev answered with a wild significant cry what's the news shouted mrs pankhurst all the cats are here shrieked the women adding they are close on you now mrs pankhurst let them come the cowards replied mrs pankhurst contemptu ously r the suffragettes boat had been chartered with the intention of rescuing the leader but it was unable to cope with the high gale tte ship was much mol ' e p Â° werful and succe6ded in reachi s frightened messenger hunts leader a m^tz l rl ce j ch dl ' ew up Â° n the opp Â° site side the ship and to l t shlps , messen s er *Â« bent to request mrs pankhurst to go to the purser's officers she quietly refused to leave the deck oers thut t fu " view Â° f p ractica y a the first-class passen gers that the cats from scotland yard pounced upon the defiant suffragette mouse and dragged her off to finish her three years penal sentence or as much of it as the british government can force her to serve scotland yard had sent six men and a hard-faced wardress and plymouth added its chief constable and head detective to the at , tacking force \ the chief constable made the first move stepping up to mrs _ ~ h_____ii , * lt ' nucj on 2d pa se 3d column arnkm a . diaz balks at order to return to mexico authorities discover jail delivery plot to free imprisoned depu ties bill to prepare u s to invade country rushed 220 federals killed in 24-hour battle at tula general agui lar declares that the rebel forces have been victorious paris dec 4 â€” general porfirio diaz to-night said he intended to ignore the request of president huerta calling upon him to return to mexico and assume command of the army in the first place i have heard nothing personally from president huerta said general diaz and therefore i do not believe the report is true in any event i shall ignore the matter for i need rest badly and i shall take no part in mexican affairs laredo tex dec 4 â€” a report has been received here to-night to the effect that a twenty-four hour battle has been in progress at tula in the state of tamaulipas mex in the important mexican oil fields as -._ a result of the fight 220 federals were killed it is further stated that gen eral aguilar of the constitutionalist forces reports that the rebels have been victorious and are forcing tho battle to-nig,hi washington dec 4 â€” that the administration is determined to place the country on a war footing at once was shown to-day when j the house leaders took under con sideration the naval militia bill which provides that this branch of the reserve forces can be used for active service they indicated that the measure will be passed next week its enactment together with that of the hay militia bill which was passed yesterday will give the government a reserve force of about 500,000 men ready for action in mexico special cable to the examiner mexico city dec 4 a plot was â– discovered , to-day at the penitentiary tor ' the release of the imprisoned deputies the plot involved several guards and a number of prominent men and offiniitls outside the suspected guards were ar rested hetween 1 and 2 o'clock and theic places taken hy soldiers of the twenty w ninth infantry several arrests of outside parties have been made but their names ure kept se cret and the prisoners held strictly in communicado great secrecy has been maintained iu regard to the affair hut it is understood tbat the jail delivery was fixed for to-night advised to arm all members of the french colony here have been advised to arm themselves and be ready for defense in case of necessity there is no rail communication on the xational hues north of san luis i'otojl or agnus calientes rebel sentiment is reported growing hi the state of hidalgo a consignment of 10,000 mauser rifles and ammunition is said to have been lauded ou the coast of guerrero having been sent there by the famous bull fighter vluceute segura of rachuca lor the people of hidalgo this consignment is uow eu route to hidalgo a rising is also reported under way in the city of guadalajara where secret or animation have been at work for some time news of the fall of chihuahua on no vember 2h was fufiuullj acknowledged by the government to-day cun^utut olliims bo.ubartu'd the city ot mai.al.au oufcl lie-mean pun ou tho pacific toast to-day they opened rifle lite oa the city killing my it dawn they poured shells into the town and into he harbor about he federal gun boats tampico and guerrero from the ( hills genera beg gjftlo qui ftdeÃŸil comma i der ordered ail cltâ€”mis tu leave ua gui.noats were preparing to rejniy to tlie rebel flr j coxoatlan state of i x-h'a iva 1 â– tured by the zapaslistus 10-<!:'.v thirty a persons mostly women and children a mf lif u shopping through n m the shopping guide w ! | is the best way to provide // 1 l_j for a christmas that will be j i sb economical â€” and free rt i from regrets for money spent m i for the presents you have sent bearing messages to cheer h it l a loving friends afar and near jl \\ y readers of this paper know ifc in that the guide will always show ja fj where the bargains are and how s f they can save by shopping now r

by kheta chilpe does â€” â€” ~ â– â– â€” Â» â€” â€” â€” â€” Â» a examiner leads in circulation the daily and sunday examiner in november sold more papers in the city of Chicago than any other two morning papers with several thousand to spare i circulation books open to the inspection of any advertiser Chicago examiner Chicago and vicinity partiy e'^^jj^t^nl % cloudy friday becoming unsettled y v^w^)ffe 9 saturday with possibly rain not jj xq^t&jrc i much change in temperature /Â£&&/ range ol temperatures yesterday fe^^cllÃŸlstw holiest 07 â– tijnrp n trr^rfr^jl ing his fist at fisher it would be railroading the matter fisher repeated that's a lie shouted geiger fisher attempted to make an explana tion to the effect that he meant no re flection on the alderman but the latter cut him shbrt with au outburst in which he accused the attorney of delaying the work on the ordinances let me tell you some home truths exclaimed chairman geiger trembling with auger for the last six months i have worked hard on this matter and my colleagues on the committee have also worked hard now you come here at the eleventh hour as attorney for certain interests and make the false charge that these ordinances are being railroaded action is demanded you know that the council must act if it is to act at all i know the major ity of the council want action and that is why i want to know whether you are going to continue sparring for further delay i want to send the whole mat ter to the subcommittee to-morrow after noon or evening well i won't retract what i have said declared fisher to make a report tq the subcommittee before we are half ready is nothing but railroad ing the affair out of our hands then it means a battle royal between us if you take that position asserted alderman geiger engineer arnold chimed in with mr fisher give us a little more time before calling the aldermen together he said continued on 2d page let column grand opera hotel thieves get 3,500 two women dupe jeweler pick lock of door grand opera thieves men who each year make an inventory of jewels worn by women ou the opening night of the grand opera season entered the room of mrs g a stepehens wife of the president of the moline plow company in the congress hotel and secured jewels valued at 3,500 the robbery which was reported to the police last night occurred some time be tween the opening of the grand opera season and november 25 mrs stepehens wore the jewels on the opening night when she opened her jewel case on thc night of november 25 she discovered her 1 loss needle fiend drugs bride in theater box south american arrested charged with white slavers trick newark n j dec 4 armand me garo a south american who has been studying pharmacy in this country was arrested iu a box iu the lyric theater here to-day charged with injecting n powerful opiate into the arm of mrs marjorie h grass who a week ago be came the bride of william grass a civil engineer for months complaints have been made to the police that white slavers have taken this means of overcoming young women two youths rob four women in hyde park purses and vanity boxes stolen from owners within an hour two eighteen-year-old highwaymen in vaded hyde park last night and robbed â– four women within an hour , mrs l prager 5233 dorchester ave nue was robbed of her purse and 75 cents fifteen minutes later mrs j h hopkins 5701 blackstone avenue was robbed of ber purse with 13.50 and gol-t rimmed glasses ' mrs charles s painter 5006 dorches ter avenue was robbed of a 50 vanity case and 12.50 and miss mildred roth 55(1 east fifty-first street was robbed of i.li zilâ€”â€”^waii use ami 10 cents hetch-hetchy vote in senate to-morrow democrats lining up solidly for san francisco washington dec 4 with a rebuff , to theodore a bell the opposition lobby ist a remarkable change of position by congressman denver s church of cali fornia and an afternoon of oratory for and against the hetch-hetchy bill san francisco's water supply project moved along to-day toward the vote which will come saturday the democratic leaders in the senate held a conference and it is now prac tically certain that every democratic , vote will be lined up solidly for san - francisco warns n.w.u co-eds against the tango 'â– president harris says dance is im 1 moral and degenerating the tango hesitation and other new dances are immoral dangerous and lead to degeneracy they should be shunned , by university girls this statement was made yesterday by abram w harris president of north western university at a meeting of the , committee on the social life the committee decided that dances be supervised by students and chaperons to â€¢ eliminate objectionable features new arrest in hyman robbery planned to-day reeves attorney says real thief was represented in court by lawyer trial is delayed new warrant issued for man now held in case charges re ceiving stolen goods the arrest and arraignment of mel ville a reeves and his girl wife in con nection with 1 the theft of jewels from the safe of t j hyman secretary and treasurer of the Illinois steel company have failed to bring to light the real solution of the robbery reeves and his wife appeared yester day morning before municipal judge mahoney their attorney charles e erbsteiu obtained a continuance until december 12 but scarcely had the young couple left the courtroom when another warrant was issued this warrant charges reeves with receiving stolen property like the first two which charge reeves with the theft of nearly 5,00x1 of jewels and bis wife with receiving stolen prop erty this warrant was sworn by w h bigelow chief of the secret service of the Illinois steel company hunt third person this warrant has not yet been served to say the least it indicates a belief on ihe part of the Illinois steel company officials that there is a third party one who actually committed the theft and passed the jewels to reeves together with other contents of the safe reeves again declared yesterday that he is absolutely innocent notwithstand ing the combinajion to mr hyman s safe was found in his safe deposit box with a revolver that has been identified by mr hyman as having been taken from his safe he reiterated his statement of the previous night how do the police know tbat i wis ue im i mjc^a:'a that ftattg how do they know how many others could get into it then he added i'm the goat and refused to say another word reeves is innocent but he has been a chump said attorney erbstein i have most definite ideas regarding the identity of the real culprit and have re tained four detectives to run down every clew in connection with him i am not yet ready to name him but i will say this much â€” he was repre sented by counsel in court this morning when mr and mrs reeves were ar raigned this has been a mighty important arrest said lieutenant james larkin acting chief of the detective bureau whatever sensation has already been created will look cheap before we are done with the case detective sergeants gus loula and william morgan who have handled the case were nearly exhausted yesterday having slept but a few hours in the past three days and nights it is known that an arrest is contem plated to-day which will create a tre mendous sensation close to the office though the police wiu not admit it it is known that whoever committed the robbery was directed to the office the desk and the safe by some one either on the pay roll of the Illinois steel coin pony or in some manner in close touch with the affairs of the office detectives loula and morgan spent the greater part of yesterday running down various clews in company with mem bers of the Illinois steel company's se cret service last night they spent two hours iu con ference with officials of that company in the office iu the continental & com mercial bank buildiug where the rob bery was committed some of the very mysterious features of the case are these except on extraordinary occasions the Illinois steel company and kin dred large corporations have a mini mum of actual cosh in the office be cause they do business almost entirely by means of checks and drafts the responsibility of handling the enormous amount of money represent ed by the pay rolls and expenses of the concern falls upon the bank or banks used as depositories reeves is nobody's fool instead he is one of the shrewdest and most self possessed prisoners ever brought into the detective bureau if he com mitted the robbery he knew in ad vance that the vault of a corporation like the Illinois steel company was no place to look for much cash under ordinary circumstances game warden fines carnegie relative columbia s c dec 4 state game warden richardson went to camden to day to prosecute two young society ineii from the north arrested for violation ol the state game laws one is believed te â– f andrew carnegie th name of sayre warder led the cases out ot couw 50 and costs _ opium making men apes says scientist speaker declares prisons and asy lums are filled by morphine philadelphia pa dec 4 lf morphine using is not checked the na tion will degenerate to something worse than moukeydom declared dr b c keister a specialist of hoanoke before a meeting of scientists and specialists here according to dr keister the united states is now next to china in the use of opium and its derivatives twenty per cent of the medical pro fession the speaker continued are now victims of the morphine habit dr keister said the medical and crim inal records of the country indicated that a complete abolition of the manufacture of habit-forming drugs including alcohol would mean 50 per cent less homicides 00 per cent less suicides and 33 per cent less lunacy he said the loss to med icine whatever it might be froni the prohibition of morphine alcohol opium and cocaine would be worth while in view of the possible benefits dr keister said 400,000 pounds of opium are consumed in the united states annually he urged national legislation to prohibit the manufacture and importa tion of drugs and alcoholic beverages new york political treasurer indicted a a mclean charged with ac cepting checks xew york dec 4 arthur a mc lean treasurer of the democratic state committee was indicted to-day on two counts by the special grand juj-j the first count charged that mclean in his capacity as treasurer had accepted a check for 400 made out by harold v owens as secretary and treasurer of the dale engineering company of utica the second count alleged that he had - accepted a 1,000 draft from t f shaughnessy as president of the shaugh nessy construction company of albany only 10 per cent of freshmen perfect u of c instructor tells result of examination fewer than 10 per cent of the 392 ! men in the freshman class of the uni ity of cjritajjfp leunjp cauwl pujzal physical instructor yesterday and the scale of perfection declines in the mass until the senior class usually presents the lowest average ninety of the 392 use tobaccot si wear glasses 15 have organic disease 3 are color blind and an unnamed number have flat feet and other defects ribot asked to pick new french cabinet will not give his answer to poin care until to-day speoial cable to the examiner paris dec 4 president poincare af ter conferences with m caillaux and [ emile aimond requested ex-premier . felix bibot to-day to select a cabinet suitable to all groups of republicans m ribot declined pleading ill health but finally consented to give his answer . to-morrow if he declines doumergue ex-minister of commerce will be asked to form a ministry connie mack won't pay 3 for five philadelphia pa dec 4 connie mack world champions manager didn't wish for any 5 gold pieces at 3 apiece so he sent two gentlemen who of fered for sale 6,500 coins to ben shibe president of the ball club shibe was willing to look at the wares but refused to show 20,000 in honest money for the privilege the men are held in 800 each on charge of false pretense and carrying concealed weapons they are booked as george matthews and fred frodoon bailey is retained to aid stephenson milwaukee wis dec 4 former united states senator bailey of texas will be oue of united states senator stephenson's counsel iu the defense of the sackett suit for 50,000 for services in electing stephenson says william b black member of the milwaukee law firm which will assist in the case bailey will watch the washington end of the case may yohe will wed keeps name secret k new york dee 4 elated over hei 1 london success may yohe the musical artiste arrived to-day ou the liner new york her companion was the rareness i vou stuenkie i am romhvu hrre < f spend the cliristmas holidays witli 3 mother miss yohe said then i shal : return to london and marry hut il t you say i am going to re-marry lor hope i will spank you britons again imprison mrs pankhurst gale balks her rescue by suffragettes mrs dorr tells of cat seizing mouse mrs em'eline pankhurst bheta childe dorr i tell my friends in amer ica that the english gov ernment has begun a new form of torturing women â€” by secret imprisonment â€” mrs pankhurst militarism cause of german crisis von hollweg ready to quit as result of censure in the ' reichstag the chancellor who was not in serious mood in the reichstag yesterday spoke passionately and angrily to-day in de fending himself he admitted that th country is passing through a grave crisis as a result of the clash between the mili tary and civil elements he denied the existence of a secret in ner government in alsace which overruled the decisions of the recognized authorities as had bcen reported and said he would â€¢ ! resign instantly if such n thiug were true the present moment is a serious ' one the chancellor said not because 1 of the possibility of my resignation but because of the danger that the zabern incident and the debates iu the imperial ; [ parliament may lead to . a permanent ! breach betweeu the army and the people the imperial chancellor and the em ! peror are iu thorough accord in the belief ; i that a policy must be adopted which will heal this strife hundreds snowbound in streets of denver r ! denver dec 4 the greatest snow ! torm in the history of colorado is sweep 1 ing over the state to-night in denver at 5 10 o'clock sixteen inches of snow covered ** llie streets in many places iu the state i . lie snow was three feet deep 1 shoppers and shop girls here were nn t able to reach their l:<>nies i'ulilic build ings were thrown ieu to accommodate them policemen carried many women to lacrÂ«Â«Â£safe m writer describes arrest of leader on shipboard thirst strike is expected uheta child e dorr who sends the following cablegram to the Chicago examiner is the noted american suffragette who accompanied mrs pankhurst on her american tour and made the voyage to england with her ' â€¢ london dec 4 after a rough but otherwise pleasant and un eventful voyage the white star liner majestic with mrs pank hurst on board reached plymouth to-day as the steamer drop ped anchor outside the breakwater we were surprised to observe that the tender always heretofore on hand to land passengers was lying motionless in the distance between two drab war vessels the only craft in the harbor that showed any interest in the arrival of the majestic was a fisherman's motor dory which driven by the gale swept past the ship standing up in the boat clinging to each other for support were two women with little purple green and white badges pinned to their stormcoats auxiously the women scanned the faces of the passengers leaning over the deck rails the object of their search mrs pankhurst hailed them and " thev answered with a wild significant cry what's the news shouted mrs pankhurst all the cats are here shrieked the women adding they are close on you now mrs pankhurst let them come the cowards replied mrs pankhurst contemptu ously r the suffragettes boat had been chartered with the intention of rescuing the leader but it was unable to cope with the high gale tte ship was much mol ' e p Â° werful and succe6ded in reachi s frightened messenger hunts leader a m^tz l rl ce j ch dl ' ew up Â° n the opp Â° site side the ship and to l t shlps , messen s er *Â« bent to request mrs pankhurst to go to the purser's officers she quietly refused to leave the deck oers thut t fu " view Â° f p ractica y a the first-class passen gers that the cats from scotland yard pounced upon the defiant suffragette mouse and dragged her off to finish her three years penal sentence or as much of it as the british government can force her to serve scotland yard had sent six men and a hard-faced wardress and plymouth added its chief constable and head detective to the at , tacking force \ the chief constable made the first move stepping up to mrs _ ~ h_____ii , * lt ' nucj on 2d pa se 3d column arnkm a . diaz balks at order to return to mexico authorities discover jail delivery plot to free imprisoned depu ties bill to prepare u s to invade country rushed 220 federals killed in 24-hour battle at tula general agui lar declares that the rebel forces have been victorious paris dec 4 â€” general porfirio diaz to-night said he intended to ignore the request of president huerta calling upon him to return to mexico and assume command of the army in the first place i have heard nothing personally from president huerta said general diaz and therefore i do not believe the report is true in any event i shall ignore the matter for i need rest badly and i shall take no part in mexican affairs laredo tex dec 4 â€” a report has been received here to-night to the effect that a twenty-four hour battle has been in progress at tula in the state of tamaulipas mex in the important mexican oil fields as -._ a result of the fight 220 federals were killed it is further stated that gen eral aguilar of the constitutionalist forces reports that the rebels have been victorious and are forcing tho battle to-nig,hi washington dec 4 â€” that the administration is determined to place the country on a war footing at once was shown to-day when j the house leaders took under con sideration the naval militia bill which provides that this branch of the reserve forces can be used for active service they indicated that the measure will be passed next week its enactment together with that of the hay militia bill which was passed yesterday will give the government a reserve force of about 500,000 men ready for action in mexico special cable to the examiner mexico city dec 4 a plot was â– discovered , to-day at the penitentiary tor ' the release of the imprisoned deputies the plot involved several guards and a number of prominent men and offiniitls outside the suspected guards were ar rested hetween 1 and 2 o'clock and theic places taken hy soldiers of the twenty w ninth infantry several arrests of outside parties have been made but their names ure kept se cret and the prisoners held strictly in communicado great secrecy has been maintained iu regard to the affair hut it is understood tbat the jail delivery was fixed for to-night advised to arm all members of the french colony here have been advised to arm themselves and be ready for defense in case of necessity there is no rail communication on the xational hues north of san luis i'otojl or agnus calientes rebel sentiment is reported growing hi the state of hidalgo a consignment of 10,000 mauser rifles and ammunition is said to have been lauded ou the coast of guerrero having been sent there by the famous bull fighter vluceute segura of rachuca lor the people of hidalgo this consignment is uow eu route to hidalgo a rising is also reported under way in the city of guadalajara where secret or animation have been at work for some time news of the fall of chihuahua on no vember 2h was fufiuullj acknowledged by the government to-day cun^utut olliims bo.ubartu'd the city ot mai.al.au oufcl lie-mean pun ou tho pacific toast to-day they opened rifle lite oa the city killing my it dawn they poured shells into the town and into he harbor about he federal gun boats tampico and guerrero from the ( hills genera beg gjftlo qui ftdeÃŸil comma i der ordered ail cltâ€”mis tu leave ua gui.noats were preparing to rejniy to tlie rebel flr j coxoatlan state of i x-h'a iva 1 â– tured by the zapaslistus 10-